Stop being fucking ridiculous. We can be sad that people have died and be happy that pubs are reopening. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. People are allowed to have a range of emotions and we often feel many emotions at the same time. Shocker!
So nobody is allowed to look forward to going on holiday or seeing their family because somewhere people have died? People have died of other things, and long after covid is gone, these things will still be killing people. Do we still have to refrain from doing anything fun then? Or can we only be sad about Covid deaths? When my grandma died, we had a weekend away just after the funeral. It helped to have something to focus on. My grief for my grandma didn’t disappear because we were doing something nice but it was better than sitting at home wallowing, although my happiness was a bit more poignant than would have been without those circumstances.
From the treasury’s point of view (the department in charge of finances) - we’ve borrowed a fuck tonne of money. We’ve diverted the whole of the NHS to tackle Covid and now have to find funding to deal with the huge backlog of missed appointments. Government departments have been redeployed to support the fight against covid but those jobs that haven’t been done for the last 4 months still need completing and those departments will likely require extra funding. The whole economy has stalled and there are huge job losses being declared daily across multiple industries. Putting it bluntly, we’re in the shit. Why would they not want the country finally generating a small amount of income?